CloudWatch Pricing Calculator - Logs, Metrics, Alarms & Observability
CloudWatch pricing calculator for Logs, Metrics, Dashboards, Alarms, and Observability features. Estimate Amazon CloudWatch monthly costs including custom logs, Logs Insights, custom metrics, X-Ray traces, Synthetics, Container Insights, and more across all AWS regions.
Reference pricesExample monthly cost in US East (N. Virginia)
500 custom metrics, 50 standard alarms, 5 dashboards, 200 GB of Standard-class logs ingested, 200 GB of logs stored and 100 GB of data scanned by Logs Insights queries, priced by this calculator at AWS list prices.
Estimated total: $271.40 per month
| Breakdown | Monthly cost |
|---|---|
| Custom Metrics (500) | $150.00 |
| ↳ 500 @ $0.30/metric | $150.00 |
| Dashboards & Alarms | $20.00 |
| ↳ 5 dashboards @ $3.00/mo | $15.00 |
| ↳ 50 standard alarms @ $0.10/alarm | $5.00 |
| Logs | $101.40 |
| ↳ 200 GB ingested @ $0.50/GB | $100.00 |
| ↳ 30 GB archival storage @ $0.03/GB | $0.90 |
| ↳ 100 GB Logs Insights @ $0.005/GB | $0.50 |
Priced on 15 Oct 2026 from CloudBurn's AWS price data. Prices in USD, excluding tax.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How does CloudWatch Logs pricing work?
CloudWatch Logs has two access classes: Standard at $0.50/GB and Infrequent Access at $0.25/GB for less frequently queried logs. Archival storage costs $0.03/GB compressed (approximately 15% of original size). Logs Insights queries cost $0.005/GB scanned. Vended logs from AWS services use volume-based tiered pricing starting at $0.50/GB.
How are CloudWatch custom metrics priced?
Custom metrics use tiered pricing: first 10,000 metrics at $0.30/metric/month, next 240,000 at $0.10, next 750,000 at $0.05, and over 1 million at $0.02. API requests (GetMetricData, PutMetricData, etc.) cost $0.01 per 1,000 requests. Metric Streams cost $0.003 per 1,000 metric updates.
What do CloudWatch alarms cost?
Standard resolution alarms (1-minute or longer periods) cost $0.10 per alarm metric per month. High resolution alarms (10-30 second periods) cost $0.30 per alarm metric. Composite alarms that combine multiple alarms cost $0.50 per alarm. Dashboards cost $3.00 per dashboard per month.
How does X-Ray tracing pricing work?
X-Ray charges $5.00 per million traces recorded, $0.50 per million traces retrieved, and $0.50 per million traces scanned. X-Ray Insights stored costs $1.00 per million. You can control costs by adjusting the sampling rate in your applications.
What is Container Insights pricing?
Container Insights for EKS with enhanced observability uses tiered pricing: first 1 billion observations at $0.21/million, next 3 billion at $0.18/million, over 4 billion at $0.10/million. Container Insights for ECS costs $0.07 per metric per month, prorated by the hour. Without enhanced observability, Container Insights uses standard CloudWatch metrics pricing.
How much does CloudWatch Synthetics cost?
Synthetics canary runs cost $0.0012 per run. A canary that runs every 5 minutes (8,640 runs/month) would cost approximately $10.37/month. Additional costs may include Lambda execution time and CloudWatch Logs storage for canary logs.
What are Application Signals and how are they priced?
Application Signals provides APM capabilities with two modes. With transaction search, tiered data ingestion pricing starts at $0.35/GB. Golden metrics only (basic metrics) uses tiered pricing starting at $1.50/million signals. Spans indexed as X-Ray traces cost $0.75 per million after the first 1%.
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